(The) state church, Folkekirken, which is Denmark’s official evangelical Lutheran denomination. No one has to join, and you can opt out of paying any tax for its upkeep, though if you’re a lazy or indifferent type and don’t phone the local municipality, you will be billed for church maintenance. What’s interesting is that while eighty four per cent of Danes pay the tax and are official members, only about five per cent of these citizens are actually church-goers." ... Imams are not welcome in Danish state churches," says a new network of Islam-critical priests and theological experts.The purpose is to state that Christians and Muslims do not believe in the same God, and that the church and the mosque are not religious equals says the new network of 60 priests and theological experts.Well-known priests and opinion-makers such as Niels Højlund, Sørine Godtfredsen, Edith Thingstrup, Morten Kvist and Katrine Winkel Holm are among the prominent members.According to the Newfounded Network admitting imams into Danish churches is problematic.The Danish People’s Church cannot agree with the imams without betraying the Lord Christ — who according to Islam is nothing but an inferior “prophet”, subordinated to Mohammad.When priests and imams are praying together, they are in essence ridiculing the Gospel, the network states. At the same time it distances itself from recent events such as religious councils with imams.Bishops and imams are not religious colleagues separated only by different merchandise. It is of paramount importance that priests in the Danish Church make that fact very clear — as well as studying and criticizing Islam, says the network — which at the same time underscores that the intention is to criticize Islam, not the individual Muslim.

Dymphna, at Gates of Vienna, comments:

Is this what Christians would call a “Christian attitude”? In a smaller sense, no. But in the larger sense of putting a stop to the inroads some of the more notorious imams in Denmark have made into a hither-to civilized cultural life, and the economic damage they have caused Denmark by spreading taqiyya in the Middle East, causing boycotts of Danish goods and the destruction of Danish embassies, they are possibly serving a greater good.The shameful spineless of American mainstream churches in the face of militant Islam, their divestment from tiny, besieged Israel, their unwitting and ignorant support of the spread of Islamicist propaganda in this country, makes Denmark’s line drawn in the sand a refreshing change.

I think this is a good starting point for me to discuss something I have been thinking about of late. The question Dymphna poses is a wise one. "Is this a Christian attitude," or, in other words, does it betray Christian values to reject ecumenicism, or, an approach of agreement, cooperation, and understanding, with an Abrahamic religion?

In short, I think we need not even address that question. Because, before we even get to it, our answer should be clear to us.

The first principle of the Judeo-Christian Christian tradition, and really, the first thing the Bible, itself, discusses, in Genesis, about the relationship of God and man, is that man was created in the Image of God. This does not mean that we look like God. What it means is that we were created with the attributes of God.

And, what are the attributes of God?

We need only look at that passage in the beginning of Genesis to understand.

"In the beginning,

1) God created the heavens and the Earth,"

2) He created the beasts of the field,

3) He separated the waters,

4) He created man of dust, and

5) breathed His own life into him, and then,

6) seeing that it was not good for man to be lonely, and moved by compassion, He created, for him, a female companion named Eve.

We can take from this that man God and, thereby man, are, among other things,

1) Creative and magnificent of vision

2) in love with reproduction and the process of life

3) analytical in our creativity, and completely willing to remake, or reshape, what we have already made, even if we have seen that "it is Good."

4) in love with matter itself

5) generous, willing to give of ourselves in our own creative process

6) loving, reasonable, and willing to change our plans, when moved by compassion.

There are many other things that can be inferred from the opening passage of Genesis, but this is enough for my argument.

The point is, both Judaism and Christianity teach that God is loving, reasonable, and creative. Both Judaism and Christianity teach that man, having been made in the Image of his Creator, also inherently possesses these attributes to some extent. Therefore, man is meant to be creative, he is meant to love matter, he is meant to be reasonable and analytical, he is meant to reshape his work, and even, the work of God's hands, using the gifts of reason and analysis, and more than anything, man is meant to be Free, as God, most indubitably, is Himself.

And, what's more, God wants man to have Freedom of choice. He wants man to come to Him of his own accord. When man sinned, God could have unmade the sin, and started over, but instead, God worked with the new reality man had created, and even promised to make something more glorious of it.

In other words, when God was confronted with man's sin, and He banished the sinners from the Garden of Eden, He did not make it His next step to take away man's Free Will, but instead, chose for man to retain Free Will, and He chose to remain a partner in man's creative endeavors.

Reading the rest of the Hebrew Bible, and the Gospels, and the Letters, it becomes apparent that God made this decision precisely because He wants man to be Free, otherwise, man would not be free to choose Him.

In other words - and I can't stress enough how important this is -

The first principle of the Bible is that man needs to be Free, and this comes before anything else.

This is not at all a principle of Islam. In Islam, a good Muslim is to learn the Koran by heart, and to follow its rules by rote. He is not to be analytical, because his analysis can never add anything to that which Allah has already provided. The Koran, itself, is the final word of Allah to man. It is not to be amended or added to. It is to be followed only.

Man's creativity is to be impeded. Music must not be made of anything more than chanting and drums. Art must not be representational. It is forbidden for a Muslim to depict the human form in a sculpture, for instance.

Man is to love the paradise Mohammed calls him towards. He is not to love the Earthly realm of matter. In fact, much of the material world is haram, to the extent that man is forbidden to even view the form of any female not his own wife.

In Islam, man is not forbidden to be generous to other men, so long as his fellow man is a Muslim. But, there is no reason to be generous to a non-Muslim. In fact, one is not to take a non-Muslim as a friend.

In Islam, compassion is not the central theme. Allah can not be said to be the equivalent of Love, as the Bible tells us Yahweh is. Allah is instead, probably, more easily called a god of justice, as defined by Allah. Or, is that justice defined by Mohammed. We can't be sure, because when it comes right down to it, the only person from whom we have learned of Allah, is the prophet himself. And, we shall never hear another new word about Allah from anyone else.

So, we see, the god of Islam is not anything like the God of the Bible. We delude ourselves if we think the two can be compared.

What's more, we put ourselves in danger, and, we put our very ability to practice our religion in danger, if we accept the idea that God and Allah are the same. Because Allah does not accept divergence of opinion. It's Allah's way, or the highway. No other opinions, or ideas, or beliefs, are allowed.

Free Speech, Freedom of Conscience, Democracy, these are all but the baubles and bangles of a decadent Western Civilization, as far as the most learned men of Islam are concerned. They all lead to disobedience, and sloth, and weakness, we are told. And most importantly, what we need to know is they all lead away from Allah.

Therefore, if we are to accept that Allah is the same as the God of the Judeo-Christian Bible, we are accepting that Allah is preeminent, and our God must be subservient. We are accepting, therefore, that we are no longer to be free, rational, and analytical beings.

Therefore, we are accepting that we no longer can make our own choices, for Democracy, for Freedom of Conscience, or for our God Himself.

If we accept such, we are condemning ourselves to the destruction of Western Civilization, and we are taking away the very duty of man himself, that is to express himself as a being made in the Image of God.

The Christian Church, in general, must come to understand these things. The most important endeavor the Christian Church can undertake at this point in time is to understand that the defense of Western Civilization is of utmost importance to the existence of Christianity. Without the protection Western Civilization provides to Freedom of Conscience, Freedom of Speech, and Democracy, Christianity itself would go into a dark age. Christians would be forced to worship underground, away from the light of day. Fewer people would hear the gospel preached, and therefore, fewer people would be free to make a choice to follow the God of the Bible.

The Christian Church must understand that Western Civilization and the Bible go hand in hand. The Christian Church must become warriors for Western Civilization. I am not saying that this means the Church itself must call for violence. No, the Church, at this juncture has the luxury still of keeping its advocacy in the realm of peace. We can still fight our battles in the realm of ideology.

However, if the Christian Church, and the West, allow too many of our cherished Freedoms to slip away, it will become incumbent upono the Church, once again, to go into the business of War. And, that will be a shame upon us, not because it would be wrong to call for war in such a case, but, because we could have won our war without violence, if we had only acted sooner.

Let this be a warning to all Pastors, Priests, Rabbis, and Teachers of the Bible of the God of Abraham.

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This is a very important point. I feel queasy when I hear someone say, "It's the same God anyway, so I mean..." (declining to get to what they mean, of course). This is dangerous because, for the literal-minded, Islam is less demonstrably false than Christianity.

I'm a Christian, btw. By the above I just mean this: college students and others who reach the age where they start to ask questions will inevitably have doubts about Christ coming to earth, the communion (if they're Catholic), the Bible's chronology (Earth is 6000 years old), etc. College kids begin to see Christianity as a fairy tale, and this is helped along by their first exposure to Nietzche and Marx, and suddenly it all makes sense.

But they still have some vague feeling of spirituality, and something has to fill this void. What choices are out there? Worship of Gaia, Wicca, etc., but they seem sort of made-up. If only there were some well-established, bare-bones, monotheistic religion. Aha! Maybe I'll give Islam a shot! Islam doesn't have a dubious creation myth, everyone keeps talking about how it's a Religion of Peace, and best of all, it seems like there is some kind of growing alignment between Islam and the correct political position -- socialism. We share common enemies, after all: Bush, the West, eurocentrism, the US, capitalism, etc. What about all this terrorism stuff I keep hearing about on the news? No problem, my queer theory professor says it's all propaganda by the evil Nazi US, and assures me that Islam is a peaceful religion.

To be correct (headline) it's just 60 priests and theologians that has formed a new network (I think it's just 2 weeks old) critisizing Islam. There is also many priests that is positive for Islam. But I guess the majority of priests really don't know what to mean.

Gormless Norman,That is a good, and frightening, analysis of the weakness of Christianity. Thank you for pointing that out.

And, of course, our Western Academy, as you point out, is only too happy to undermine our beloved Western Civilization.

I watched three early-twnenties white American fools, Islamic converts all, with their stupid skullcaps, smoking a hookah tonight at a local coffee shop.

One of them was wearing a Rage Against The Machine t-shirt.

Look, I have nothing against the hookah, or the dumb skullcap, but I do have something against what I know to be going on here.

These three idiots are a group of stupid boys whose fathers left them to be raised by single moms, who, growing up to be a bunch of pussies, decided to become "men/masculine" by taking on the testicles of Jihadism.

Their balls dropped right out of the most evil ideology of our time. They don't know, or care, about history, or our culture. All they know is hatred of their family structure and Islam gives them good justification for that.

I don't blame them for hating their parents, but their children are going to hate them for selling them into slavery.

5:51 O YOU who have attained to faith! Do not take the jews and the Christians for your allies: they are but allies of one another [72] and whoever of you allies himself with them becomes, verily, one of them; behold, God does not guide such evildoers.

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9:30 AND THE JEWS say, "Ezra is God's son," while the Christians say, "The Christ is God's son." Such are the sayings which they utter with their mouths, following in spirit assertions made in earlier times by people who denied the truth! [44] [They deserve the imprecation:] "May God destroy them!" [45] How perverted are their minds!

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8:12 Lo! Thy Sustainer inspired the angels [to convey this His message to the believers]: "I am with you !" [13] [And He commanded the angels:] "And, give firmness unto those who have attained to faith [with these words from Me]: [14] `I shall cast terror into the hearts of those who are bent on denying the truth; strike, then, their necks, [O believers,] and strike off every one of their finger-tips!"

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I'd also like to add baroudi that that specific site is a very westernised translation, which uses longer verses and sentences with assumed information/side notes, uses G-d rather than Allah, and has pretty much been designed for western non-muslim eyes.

Would I be right in thinking that where Jews and Christians see man as made in the image of God, but Muslims don't, they see themselves as slaves and would reject being made in the image of God as a form of shirk.

If this is the case, then there is an unbridgeable gap between God and Allah.

Actually, now that I think about it, this explains the low opinion Muslims seem to have of themselves. They live in constant fear of being "humiliated." They believe they are victims. They have to hate everyone before anyone begins to hate them.

Baroudi--that info may be wrong if you are a MUSLIM. But for us well educated infidels out here, we know all too well where we stand.

Besides, for those of us who are Christians, we know of Jesus' warning about false prophets (Matthew 7:15) as well as the blashphemy of the Koran on the subject of Jesus. For those who are Jews, they know damn well what muslims think of them, what they want done to them and what the Koran and the Sunna say about them. Not much wiggle room there, Baroudi. Even less in Arabic.

Well, he didn't call me a Neo-con Zionist Jew Bitch Whore at any rate. At least when he returns he'll know how to address me. Damn, I loved that Photoshop I did on that graphic. I was laughing so hard. I think I'll repost that on my site just for fun.

Pim, Jaco, isn't Babbazee the Gramscian Whore of the Calliphate? We gots us a lots of Infidel Love in here. I am too old to be either Nympho or Whore. Could you all just call me Madame? Or, hehehe: Mahdame!

Very well, but I have some issues. First, I think the whole debate about whether Christians and Muslims share the same imaginary friend is a facetious distraction. Maybe as the more liberal orthodoxy suggests, Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe in and worship the same entity. The imaginary friend of the Jews is that of the Christians and of the Muslims. Maybe he's not. Perhaps they all have different imaginary friends. Allah is the Arab's imaginary friend in the sky. Yahweh is the Jew's imaginary friend in the sky. The Christians seem to have an imaginary friend that is apparently schizophrenic or suffers from multiple personality disorder. (He has three personalities!)

While I applaud the efforts of Danish churches to avoid the politically correct "interfaith worship" phenomenon (regardless of whether or not they share an imaginary friend), I do not agree that Christianity is the only, or even the best weapon against Islamism. I view this struggle more in terms of realpolitik. Furthermore, I value a secular society rooted in reason, science, rationalism, and reality-based thinking. I understand that we disagree, but I think this is a struggle of secularism and rationality versus medieval superstition and reaction.

Truth be told, I happen to see Christianity for the happy horseshit that it all is, and I guarantee any intelligent person-WHO HAS NOT ALREADY MADE THE RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT-would agree. I understand that this would be a source of disagreement, but nevertheless, I can applaud these Danes for distancing themselves from Islamicization.

P.S. While GormlessNorman seems to be on the right track much of the way, he's way off on several points.

1. We are living in an increasingly secular age. As science improves and education expands, more people question their mythology and superstitions. Case in point, as kids in the Western nations get older, many, if not most see Christianity for the happy horseshit that it is.

That much is true! However, I would imagine that the more intelligent kids would figure out better means of filling the spiritual voids than other silly religions. If they are psychologically stable then they can live contented lives as atheists. Islam doesn't have a "dubious creation myth" you say? Wrong! In fact, creationism and similar idiocy is even more rampant in the Islamic world than it is in the Christian and post-Christian "Western" countries.

2. The rest of NormlessGorman's screed is nothing more than a very bad strawman of the Left. Case in point, Islam and socialism? Islam is at least as anti-socialist as it is anti-capitalist. Furthermore, the oppostition to capitalism in the Islamic nations is from the opposite end as the socialist opposition. Muslims oppose capitalism from the Right, rather than the Left. I.e. they think it too modern. Arabs are a fundamentally feudal people. Furthermore, capitalism is the engine of globalism. Muslims are invariably opposed to globalization, except of course when THEY'RE the ones doing it. Economic globalization is a process that bridges the various races, cultures, and civilizations of the world, but above all, economic globalization is a secularizing force, and thus opposed to their theocratic values.

Up until my father's lifetime, Europe had gone to war to protect national identity. Now, thanks to the liberal progressive hive-mind collective guilt, citizens are scolded that they must be "diverse" and allow immigration by people who have no interest in preserving the indigenous cultures but instead view immigration as a means of cultural and religious conquest.

The only way to combat a virulent religion is with another virulent religion. Thus, the next phase of this will be to resurrect the role of the Roman Church in the personal lives of Europeans, to give them a means of pushing back against the growing threat by Islam.

Indigenous Europeans will also have to start conceiving at a far higher rate to counter the ease with which the welfare-funded immigrants are conceiving new eventual voters.

But Islam will not take this push-back and suppression sitting down. It will not be without the shedding of blood.

Up until my father's lifetime, Europe had gone to war to protect national identity. Now, thanks to the liberal progressive hive-mind collective guilt, citizens are scolded that they must be "diverse" and allow immigration by people who have no interest in preserving the indigenous cultures but instead view immigration as a means of cultural and religious conquest.

The only way to combat a virulent religion is with another virulent religion. Thus, the next phase of this will be to resurrect the role of the Roman Church in the personal lives of Europeans, to give them a means of pushing back against the growing threat by Islam.

Indigenous Europeans will also have to start conceiving at a far higher rate to counter the ease with which the welfare-funded immigrants are conceiving new eventual voters.

But Islam will not take this push-back and suppression sitting down. It will not be without the shedding of blood.

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